[sreevisakh]

How familiar are you with Lisps? I heard somewhere that it's easier for a complete beginner to start learning programming with lisps than with traditional languages. I started with more mainstream languages, but my experience tends to agree with that observation. The small set of various lisp forms and their semantics are easy to learn and reason about, compared to synatx and semantics of more traditional languages. Same when s-expressions are used for representing data. The syntax closely matches the logical structure of a program or data.

Keeping this in mind, I find the Guile scheme syntax used by Guix quite intuitive and pleasant. It reduces the cognitive overhead to configure the system, at least for me.